Divine Multiplicity

Chris Boesel is associate professor of Christian theology at Drew Theological School in New Jersey. His work focuses on Kierkegaardian and Barthian approaches to confessional Christian faith and its relation to progressive ethical commitments to social justice in dialogue with liberation theologies and postmodern philosophies. He is the author of Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Whence and the Whither of "Divine Multiplicity" | Chris Boesel and S. Wesley Ariarajah PART I : PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS: DIVINITY, DIVERSITY, DEPTH The God Who Is (Not) One: Of Elephants, Blind Men, and Disappearing Tigers | Philip Clayton God's Vitality: Creative Tension and the Abyss of Diff erance within the Divine Life | Eric Trozzo Polyphilic Pluralism: Becoming Religious Multiplicities | Roland Faber and Catherine Keller PART I I : INTERRELIGIOUS EXPLORATIONS: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND DIVINE MULTIPLICITY Abhinavagupta's Theogrammatical Topography of the One and the Many | Loriliai Biernacki One and the Many: The Struggle to Understand Plurality within the Indian Tradition and Its Implications for the Debate on Religious Plurality Today | S. Wesley Ariarajah Diff erential Pluralism and Trinitarian Theologies of Religion | S. Mark Heim Spirited Transformations: Pneumatology as a Resource for Comparative Theology | Holly Hillgardner PART I I I : THEO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS: QUEER GOD, STRANGE CREATURES, STORIED SPIRIT Excess, Reversibility, and Apophasis: Rereading Gender in Feminist Trinities | Sara Rosenau Doxological Diversities and Canticle Multiplicities: The Trinitarian Anthropologies of David H. Kelsey and Ivone Gebara | Jacob J. Erickson The Holy Spirit, the Story of God | Sam Laurent PART I V : DOCTRINAL EXPLORATIONS: TRINITY, CHRISTOLOGY, AND THE QUALITY OF RELATION Absolute Diff erence | Kathryn Tanner Multiplicity and Christocentric Theology | John F. Hoff meyer Divine Relationality and (the Methodological Constraints of ) the Gospel as Piece of News: Tracing the Limits of Trinitarian Ethics | Chris Boesel The Universe, Raw: Saying Something about Everything | Cynthia L. Rigby Notes List of Contributors

"This volume presents a scholarly conversation around some of the burning issues in theology and in religious dialogue today. Indeed it helps a conversation that is pressing to our time to gain momentum and a sense of direction, to move forward with compelling velocity." -- -Anna Mercedes College of St. Benedict "This book is groundbreaking in that it pushes the boundary both of religious studies, theologies of religion, systematic and constructive theology, philosophy of religion, and comparative theology." -- -Marion Grau School of the Pacific